Why are there so few? (creative women: Visual artists, mathematicians, musicians)

Abstract

The author rethinks a position she and Higham took in 1984 in an article in Journal For The Education of the Gifted, where she and Higham called for “differential equality” in the education of gifted girls. Looking again at well‐known psychometric, psychological, and biographical research into creative visual artists, mathematicians, and musicians, she examines these studies in terms of gender differences, and relates those findings to the developmental research now being done on girls.